![]() ![]() I was thinking that maybe we should make our way back to our cells and try again another day. He was going to dig out the wood from behind the locking plate on the doorframe and then when he’d removed enough he would be able to bend it back so that the bolt could clear it when he pulled the door open. We would have none of it! If it would not give in to our gentler persuasions there was only one other option – force!Īlex asked for the chisel. How was it that this miserable little door would not yield to our persuasions? With minimal effort we’d opened 14 other doors to get to it, most of them the giant prison steel doors and grilles, yet this last one, an ordinary wooden door with an ordinary house lock, had decided to put a halt to 18 months’ worth of planning and preparation. We stood staring at the last obstacle between us and freedom. See You are free to make copies of this book and publish it wherever you like. The book was republished by Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd in 2003, under the title "Inside Out - Escape from Pretoria Prison", ISBN 1-91. (Cover description from the original book).Įscape from Pretoria was first published by Kliptown Books, London, in April 1987. It is an account of how a white South Afican became conscious of the injustice on which his privileged life was based and chose to throw in his lot with the oppressed black majority of South Africa by joining the liberation struggle. It is, however, much more than just an escape story. But the truth was quite different.Įscape from Pretoria shows how patience, singlemindedness and meticulous attention to detail got the prisoners out of their cells and through 14 locked doors.to freedom. How did three political prisoners break out of one of South Africa`s top security prisons? Angry and embarrassed by the escape, the apartheid Security Branch forced one of the warders to say he had been bribed to help them. National Policy Conferences Menu Toggle.National Consultative Conferences Menu Toggle.With Daniel Radcliffe Daniel Webber Ian Hart and Mark Leonard Winter as the key Characters. The movie was written and directed by Francis Annan. The first to get out of the toughest jail in South Africa, Stephen and Tim earned renown with a borderline genius hack. Their revolutionary deeds helped to change the course of history, and their prison escape was that which garnered them real fame. But that didn't stop them from helping the trio to escape especially for Alex who really missed his son. They last came when the ask, and try to convince their other friends to join them but the refused. Stephen and Tim had to open 11 doors in total, some right next to the guards' office, which was possible through the help of a French Inmate (Alex Moumbaris) whom the befriended. After a few tries, he managed to get the key to the right position and the door opened. Some doors He would have to lean out of the tiny opening next to the door of his cell, and get the key inside the lock with a broomstick and a mirror. He(Tim) would wait until the guards had gone to sleep. Once the key was ready to go, they had to work out how to get the door open without the guards noticing. So he began to experiment with wooden keys – the exact replicas used by prison guards – during his compulsory shifts at the prison's wood workshop. He shared the idea with Stephen and other inmate friends they made. While reminiscing about his childhood years, he suddenly remembered how he would pick locks back at home. Tim came up with the solution to end all of their woes during a lonely, quiet night in his prison cell. In June 1978, Stephen Lee and Tim Jenkin were sentenced to eight to 12 years in prison for working on behalf of the African National Congress headed by Nelson Mandela and producing political pamphlets during the Apartheid. That is a story for another day.Įscape From Pretoria' Is Based on the True Story of Two Revolutionary Lockpickers. ![]() This Movie actually reminds me of the famous seasonal movie back in the days 'Prison Break' with Michael Scofield playing the hero and giving you goose bumps when their plans looks as if is failing. ![]()
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